Arteta: Burnley made things difficult with their long balls

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta admits their 1-1 draw at Burnley wasn’t good enough.

Granit Xhaka suffered another day to forget against Burnley as his error presented Chris Wood with a bizarre equaliser to deprive Arsenal of a Premier League victory at Turf Moor.

Xhaka, who was sent off in the Gunners’ December defeat by Burnley, received a short pass facing his own goal from keeper Bernd Leno and tried to clip a square ball to David Luiz across the penalty area.

However, he succeeded only in hitting Wood in the midriff and the ball bounced into an empty net for the softest of levellers.

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Arsenal had appeared to be in cruise control after Pierre-Emerick Aubayemang’s near-post strike beat Nick Pope to give the Gunners an early lead.

Arteta said: “It’s a really tough place to come on a difficult pitch, but I have to say we should have scored the big chances we had. When you miss the chances we had, and you do not get decisions, it is complicated to win football games. If that is not a penalty, then someone needs to explain what one is.

“From what we produced, you have to come here and win. When you do not, you have to look at yourself. We completely dominated the first half but they make it difficult with a lot of long ball.

“We generated chances and we should have won by two or three goals. if you give any hope to any team in the Premier League, they are going to take it.”